Shumian Ye

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. My research focuses on the semantics of natural language, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax. I am currently working on Mandarin non-canonical questions and related issues such as response particles, question-embedding predicates, and speaker-oriented adverbs.

Here is my full CV.

Please contact me at shumianye at gmail dot com.

Recent & Upcoming

Projected common ground and high negation polar questions in Mandarin Chinese

June 2026. Invited talk, CRC Colloquium, University of Tübingen.

Different high negations

June 2026. Invited talk, Research Seminar of NegLab, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Perspective anchoring and speaker-oriented adverbs in Mandarin Chinese

June 2026. Invited talk, MGK Colloquium of NegLab, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Question under Discussion and question bias: Biased A-not-A questions in Mandarin Chinese

In press. In Zhuosi Luo & Haoze Li (eds.), New Perspectives on Chinese Formal Semantics. [LingBuzz]

Non-canonical questions in Chinese and their prosodic characteristics (with Yiya Chen & Katrina Kechun Li)

In press. In Regine Eckardt, George Walkden & Nicole Dehé (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Non-Canonical Questions.

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